Sales of more than £27m saw Sheffield’s Mark Jenkinson and Son record the best auction results in the whole of Yorkshire and the Humber for 2015.

Mark Jenkinson and Son, which has offices in Sheffield and Chesterfield, beat off competition from more than 20 other individual auctioneers across the region with sales totalling £7.5m more than the auctioneer ranked in second place.

In total £5.25m of property was sold during the record auction for the firm, while 91% of its lots were sold.

The city centre based practice is nationally renowned for being the region’s most successful firm of auctioneers and one of the only ones in the North of England to be committed to nine sales each year.

The firm was established in 1877 – the same year that the very first test match took place between England and Australia, the first ever official tie in the boat race and the year that very useful auctioneering device of the microphone was invented!